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Racket-tailed coquette
Species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The racket-tailed coquette (Discosura longicaudus; sometimes Discosura longicauda) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae native to northeastern South America.
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Racket-tailed coquette | |
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A male in Pernambuco, Brazil, spreading its tail | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Discosura |
Species: | D. longicaudus |
Binomial name | |
Discosura longicaudus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | |
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Range of the racket-tailed coquette | |
Synonyms[3] | |
Discosura longicauda (Gmelin, 1788) |
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